[ryanfitz]

I recently read a blog post from Github about them operating their own datacenter http://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/

Im not positive, but it sounds like a fairly recent switch from a cloud provider to their own datacenter. If thats the case, Id expect a number of outages to come in the following months.

[secure]

AFAIK, they never used a cloud provider.

[ryanfitz]

Github was hosted at rackspace, here is there blogpost about it https://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace

From their blog posted last month:

As we started transitioning hosts and services to our own data center, we quickly realized we'd also need an efficient process for installing and configuring operating systems on this new hardware.